Well, we were supposed to be closing this coming Monday, but the owner still hasn't moved her stuff out, and we're still running around in circles with the mortgage company and contractors, so it will probably be the following Monday- if we're lucky.
In the mean time, I've put together a virtual tour, since most of my family and a lot of my friends live out of town.
| Well, this is the house. Alexis doesn't even like to talk about it, as we don't have it all locked up yet, but what the heck. Check out the lovely aluminum awnings and 1970s metal railings - Gots to GO! Ou real estate lawyer is from the neighborhood, and says the place used to have a huge porch out front. So... |
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| Out comes PaintShop Pro, and off come the nasty awnings, slab porchletts; and overgown shrubs. I thew a coat of white primer over the woodwork while I was at it, and srcubbed the rust-stains off the roof. If only I could do all that on the real house in under an hour... |
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| Alexis and I had aggreed... -ok, Alexis coerced me into aggreeing- on a single large porch for the house. And I like the little wrought-iron fences on top. I'm not ready to even think about paint colors yet, so we'll stick to white primer for now. Copy and paste sections from the box gutters, extend the foundadtion to make it look like it's protruding under the porch, cast a little shadow under the new roof, and BAM! ready for columns and railings. |
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| Version 1: My first attempt, and perhapse my favorite. My pimay goal was to not block those big windows. I think that 5 is the right number of columns for that width. |
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| Version 2: ...But Alexis would prefer a central staircase, to make it look more like a single-family home. Hee's my First attempt- a little busy, with all of those columns. |
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| Version 3: This one we aggree on- so far. A little more open - maybe too open. I guess if the columns are thick enough, it would be ok. |
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